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• A Tour of Ancient Rome’s Best Graffiti: “We Have Urinated in Our Beds … There Was No Chamber Pot” & More, 17 Mar 2025 in History&Writing
• The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism, 14 Mar 2025 in History&Religion
• Watch the Only Time Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Performed Together On-Screen (1952), 13 Mar 2025 in Film&History
• Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse, 12 Mar 2025 in Music
• When Charlie Chaplin First Spoke Onscreen: How His Famous Great Dictator Speech Came About, 11 Mar 2025 in Film&History
• Watch “The Birth of the Robot,” Len Lye’s Surreal 1935 Stop-Motion Animation, 10 Mar 2025 in Animation
• A Tour of the Final Home Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright: The Circular Sun House, 07 Mar 2025 in Architecture
• The Classic 1972 Concert Film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii Gets Restored & Will Soon Hit IMAX Theaters, 06 Mar 2025 in Film&Music
• How Stephen King Predicted the Rise of Trump in a 1979 Novel, 05 Mar 2025 in Books&Politics
• How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937, 04 Mar 2025 in Art&History
• Where The Simpsons Began: Discover the Original Shorts That Appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show (1987–1989), 03 Mar 2025 in Animation&Comedy&Television
• The Experimental Movement That Created The Beatles’ Weirdest Song, “Revolution 9”, 28 Feb 2025 in Music
• Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and 1,000 Musicians Protest AI with a New Silent Album, 27 Feb 2025 in Artificial Intelligence&Current Affairs&Music
• What Makes Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas One of the Most Fascinating Paintings in Art History, 26 Feb 2025 in Art&History
• The 48 Laws of Power Explained in 30 Minutes: “Never Outshine the Master,” “Re-Create Yourself,” and More, 25 Feb 2025 in Books&Politics
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists the Best and Worst Sci-Fi Movies: The Blob, Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey & More, 24 Feb 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
• How Do You Use AI in Your Daily Life? Share the Applications That Have Made a Big Difference, 21 Feb 2025 in Artificial Intelligence
• The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes, 20 Feb 2025 in Architecture&History
• Hear the Jazz-Funk Musical Adaptation of Dune by David Matthews (1977), 19 Feb 2025 in Music&Sci Fi
• Why Are the Names of British Towns & Cities So Hard to Pronounce?: A Humorous But Informative Primer, 18 Feb 2025 in History&Language&Travel
• Brian Eno Explores What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A, 17 Feb 2025 in Art&Books
• Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane Crashes, Ozempic & More, 14 Feb 2025 in Current Affairs&Music
• How the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Revolutionized Music, 13 Feb 2025 in History&Music&Technology
• What It Was Like to Get a Meal at a Medieval Tavern, 12 Feb 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• Tracing English Back to Its Oldest Known Ancestor: An Introduction to Proto-Indo-European, 11 Feb 2025 in History&Language
• Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Who Was the Greatest Scientific Mind in History, 10 Feb 2025 in History&Science
• Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David Byrne’s True Stories, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & More, 07 Feb 2025 in Film
• See Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Visualized in Colorfully Animated Scores, 06 Feb 2025 in Animation&Music
• How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of Traditional Sword Making from Start to Finish, 05 Feb 2025 in History&Science
• How Wearing Ridiculously Long Pointed Shoes Became a Medieval Fashion Trend, 04 Feb 2025 in Fashion&History
• Has SpaceX Done Anything NASA Hasn’t? Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains His “Feud” with Elon Musk, 03 Feb 2025 in Science&Technology
• The Nature of Human Stupidity Explained by The 48 Laws of Power Author Robert Greene, 31 Jan 2025 in Psychology
• How Robert Frost Wrote One of His Most Famous Poems, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, 30 Jan 2025 in Poetry
• How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction, 29 Jan 2025 in Architecture&History
• When Neapolitans Used to Eat Pasta with Their Bare Hands: Watch Footage from 1903, 28 Jan 2025 in Food & Drink&History
• How Erik Satie’s ‘Furniture Music’ Was Designed to Be Ignored and Paved the Way for Ambient Music, 27 Jan 2025 in History&Music
• Where Do You Put the Camera? Every Frame a Painting Presents Insights from Famous Directors, 24 Jan 2025 in Film
• Revisit Pop-Up Video: The VH1 Series That Reinvented Music Videos & Pop Culture, 23 Jan 2025 in Music&Television
• Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home, 22 Jan 2025 in Film&YouTube
• The Story of How Quentin Tarantino Became a Filmmaker and Created Pulp Fiction, as Told by Quentin Tarantino, 21 Jan 2025 in Film
• Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation, 20 Jan 2025 in Film&Sci Fi
• The Wide-Ranging Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials, Paintings, Photography & More, 16 Jan 2025 in Art&Film
• Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires, 16 Jan 2025 in Current Affairs&History
• Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in Chronological Order, 15 Jan 2025 in Art&Television
• Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation (1911–1914), 14 Jan 2025 in Animation&Film&History
• Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic Comedy Show, 13 Jan 2025 in Comedy&History&Television
• In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts, 10 Jan 2025 in Books&History&Technology
• Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images, 09 Jan 2025 in Archives&History
• Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Performance at the Newport Folk Festival, 08 Jan 2025 in Film&History&Music
• Why the Tavern Scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Is a Master Class in Filmmaking, 07 Jan 2025 in Film
• The Skeleton Dance, Voted the 18th Best Cartoon of All Time, Is Now in the Public Domain (1929), 06 Jan 2025 in Animation&History
• Laurie Anderson’s Mind-Blowing Performance of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Waiting for the Barbarians” & “Ithaca”, 03 Jan 2025 in Music&Poetry
• The Scene That Reveals the Beauty of Classic Hollywood Cinema, 02 Jan 2025 in Film
• What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2025: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Early Hitchcock Films, Tintin and Popeye Cartoons & More, 01 Jan 2025 in Books&Comics/Cartoons&Film&Law&Music
• The Complete History of the Music Video: From the 1890s to Today, 31 Dec 2024 in History&Music
• The Longest Construction Projects in History: Why Sagrada Família, the Milan Duomo, Greek Temples & Other Famous Structures Took Generations to Complete, 30 Dec 2024 in Architecture&History
• Benedict Cumberbatch Reads Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter of Advice to People Living in the Year 2088, 27 Dec 2024 in Letters&Literature
• The New York Times Presents the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, Selected by 503 Novelists, Poets & Critics, 26 Dec 2024 in Books&Literature
• Francis Ford Coppola Picks His Favorite Criterion Movies & Gives Advice to Filmmakers, 26 Dec 2024 in Film
• How A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Its Beloved Soundtrack Album, Almost Never Happened, 24 Dec 2024 in Music&Television
• How Leonardo da Vinci Painted The Last Supper: A Deep Dive Into a Masterpiece, 23 Dec 2024 in Art&History
• The Story Behind the Making of the Iconic Surrealist Photograph, Dalí Atomicus (1948), 20 Dec 2024 in History&Photography
• Richard Feynman Enthusiastically Explains How to Think Like a Physicist in His Series Fun to Imagine (1983), 19 Dec 2024 in Science&Television
• Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious Objects Flying Over New Jersey, 18 Dec 2024 in Current Affairs&History&Radio
• The Ingenious Engineering of Leonardo da Vinci’s Self-Supporting Bridge, Explained with Animation, 17 Dec 2024 in History&Technology
• How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975), 16 Dec 2024 in Music
• How Medieval Islamic Engineering Brought Water to the Alhambra, 13 Dec 2024 in Architecture&History
• Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That Girl & More, 12 Dec 2024 in Television
• The Engineering of the Strandbeest: How the Magnificent Mechanical Creatures Have Technologically Evolved, 11 Dec 2024 in Art&Technology
• Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019, 10 Dec 2024 in History&Music
• Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Predicted the Rise of Artificial Intelligence & the Existential Questions We Would Need to Answer (1978), 09 Dec 2024 in History&Technology&Television
• The 63 Cuisines of China Explained in 40 Minutes: A Complete Primer, 06 Dec 2024 in Food & Drink&Travel
• Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels, 05 Dec 2024 in Art&Books&Literature
• Scientists Discover that Ancient Egyptians Drank Hallucinogenic Cocktails from 2,300 Year-Old Mug, 04 Dec 2024 in History&Religion
• Beautiful 19th Century Maps of Dante’s Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise & More, 03 Dec 2024 in Art&Books&Literature&Religion
• Discover Hannah Arendt’s Syllabus for Her 1974 Course on “Thinking”, 02 Dec 2024 in Philosophy
• Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Creative Process: A Look Inside the Books & Techniques That Allowed His Art to Flow, 29 Nov 2024 in Art
• The Most Iconic Hip-Hop Sample of Every Year (1973–2023), 29 Nov 2024 in History&Music
• Explore and Download 14,000+ Woodcuts from Antwerp’s Plantin-Moretus Museum Online Archive, 27 Nov 2024 in Archives&Books&Design&History&Museums
• How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902), 26 Nov 2024 in Film&History
• How Rasputin Inspired the “Fictitious Persons” Disclaimer Commonly Seen in Movies, 25 Nov 2024 in Film&History&Law
• How the Ancient Romans Traveled Without Maps, 22 Nov 2024 in History&Maps&Travel
• An Introduction to the Astonishing Book of Kells, the Iconic Illuminated Manuscript, 21 Nov 2024 in Books&History
• Explore the World’s First 3D Replica of St. Peter’s Basilica, Made with AI, 20 Nov 2024 in Architecture&History&Technology
• Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time, 19 Nov 2024 in Art&Biology&Books
• Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930), 18 Nov 2024 in Education&Life&Philosophy
• What Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself, 15 Nov 2024 in History&Technology
• Explore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles, 14 Nov 2024 in Architecture&Travel
• A New 3D Scan, Created from 25,000 High-Resolution Images, Reveals the Remarkably Well-Preserved Wreck of Shackleton’s Endurance, 13 Nov 2024 in Film&History
• How Designing Buildings Upside-Down Revolutionized Architecture, Making Possible St. Paul’s Cathedral, Sagrada Família & More, 12 Nov 2024 in Architecture&History&Physics
• Watch the Original Nosferatu, the Classic German Expressionist Vampire Film, Before the New Remake Arrives This December, 11 Nov 2024 in Film
• Behold the Oldest Written Text in the World: The Kish Tablet, Circa 3500 BC, 08 Nov 2024 in History&Writing
• How Car Chase Scenes Have Evolved Over 100 Years, 07 Nov 2024 in Film&Technology
• Watch 70+ Classic Literary Films Free Online: The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Gulliver’s Travels, Jane Eyre, and More, 06 Nov 2024 in Film
• Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More, 05 Nov 2024 in Archives&Museums
• Discover Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s Still-Bizarre Proto-Surrealist Book Les Malheurs des immortels (1922), 04 Nov 2024 in Art&Books&Poetry
• How the Influential Time-Travel Movie La Jetée Was Made (Almost) Entirely out of Still Photographs, 01 Nov 2024 in Film
• Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others, 31 Oct 2024 in Audio Books&Literature
• Mythology Expert Reviews Depictions of Greek & Roman Myths in Popular Movies and TV Shows, 30 Oct 2024 in Film&History&Religion&Television
• Marcus Aurelius’ 9 Rules for Living a Stoic Life, 29 Oct 2024 in Philosophy
• The Hand: An Anti-Totalitarian Animation, Banned for Two Decades & Now Considered One of the Greatest Animations (1965), 28 Oct 2024 in Animation&Film
• Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janáček, and More, 25 Oct 2024 in Books&Literature&Music
• The Evolution of Cinema: Watch Nearly 140 Years of Film History Unfold in 80 Minutes, 24 Oct 2024 in Film&History
• Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette Wheel & Find Out What Would Have Killed You in 1665, 23 Oct 2024 in History
• Built to Last: How Ancient Roman Bridges Can Still Withstand the Weight of Modern Cars & Trucks, 22 Oct 2024 in History&Technology
• How Man Ray Reinvented Himself & Created One of the Most Iconic Works of Surrealist Photography, 21 Oct 2024 in Art&Photography
• Neuroscience Shows That Viewing Art in Museums Engages the Brain More Than Reproductions, 18 Oct 2024 in Art&Neuroscience
• The Night When Luciano Pavarotti & James Brown Sang “It’s a Man’s World” Together (2002), 17 Oct 2024 in Music
• The Fake Buildings of New York: What Happens Inside Their Mysterious Walls, 16 Oct 2024 in Architecture&History
• Take a Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, the Mansion That Has Appeared in Blade Runner, Twin Peaks & Countless Hollywood Films, 15 Oct 2024 in Architecture&Film
• The Amazing Recording History of The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”, 14 Oct 2024 in Music
• The Writer Who Directed, The Director Who Wrote: Every Frame a Painting Explores the Genius of Billy Wilder, 11 Oct 2024 in Film
• The Story of Francis Ford Coppola’s Four-Decade-Struggle to Make Megalopolis, 10 Oct 2024 in Film
• Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Is Finally for Sale, 09 Oct 2024 in Games&Literature
• T. S. Eliot’s Classic Modernist Poem The Waste Land Gets Adapted into Comic-Book Form, 08 Oct 2024 in Art&Comics/Cartoons&Poetry
• David Lynch Releases on YouTube Interview Project: 121 Stories of Real America Recorded on a 20,000-Mile Road Trip, 07 Oct 2024 in Film&Travel
• The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene … and Nailed It, 04 Oct 2024 in Science&Technology&Television
• When Kris Kristofferson (RIP) Stood by Sinéad O’Connor at the Height of Her Controversy, 03 Oct 2024 in History&Music
• Artificial Intelligence & Drones Uncover 303 New Nazca Lines in Peru, 02 Oct 2024 in Art&History&Technology
• How Henri Matisse Scandalized the Art Establishment with His Daring Use of Color, 01 Oct 2024 in Art&History
• Revisit Episodes of Liquid Television, MTV’s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent & Bizarre Animation, 01 Oct 2024 in Animation&Television
• Free: Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive, 30 Sep 2024 in Archives
• How Kodak Invented the Snapshot in the 1800s, Making It Possible for Everyone to Be a Photographer, 27 Sep 2024 in History&Photography
• How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear: Mirrors in Movies, 26 Sep 2024 in Film&Television
• Watch the First Performance of a Mozart Composition That Had Been Lost for Centuries, 25 Sep 2024 in History&Music
• How Art Gets Stolen: What Happened to Egon Schiele’s Painting Boats Mirrored in the Water After Its Theft by the Nazis, 24 Sep 2024 in Art&History
• Watch James Earl Jones Read Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Urging High-School Students to Create Art & “Make Your Soul Grow”, 23 Sep 2024 in Art&Education&Letters
• Do All Roads Lead to Philosophy on Wikipedia?: They Do About 97.3% of the Time, 19 Sep 2024 in Philosophy&Wikipedia
• The Longest Drivable Distance in the World: Discover the Ultimate Road Trip, 18 Sep 2024 in Maps&Travel
• How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting, 17 Sep 2024 in Language&Television
• The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse: Rick Beato Explains, 16 Sep 2024 in Music&Technology
• How a 16th-Century Explorer’s Sailing Ship Worked: An Animated Video Takes You on a Comprehensive Tour, 13 Sep 2024 in History&Technology
• How Audrey Hepburn Risked Death to Help the Dutch Resistance in World War II, 12 Sep 2024 in History
• 13 Experimental Animations of Osamu Tezuka, “the Godfather of Manga” (1964–1987), 11 Sep 2024 in Animation&History
• Michio Kaku Demystifies the God Equation: The Key to Understanding Everything, 10 Sep 2024 in Physics
• The Big Map of Who Lived When Shows Which Cultural Figures Walked the Earth at the Same Time: From 1200 to Present, 09 Sep 2024 in History&Maps
• How 2001: A Space Odyssey Became “the Hardest Film Kubrick Ever Made”, 06 Sep 2024 in Film&History&Sci Fi
• Every Frame a Painting Returns to YouTube & Explores Why the Sustained Two-Shot Vanished from Movies, 05 Sep 2024 in Film
• A Digital Archive Features Hundreds of Audio Cassette Tape Designs, from the 1960s to the 1990s, 04 Sep 2024 in Archives&History&Music&Technology
• Behold the First American Board Game, Travellers’ Tour Through the United States (1822), 03 Sep 2024 in Games&History